A Treatise on the Preparation and Delivery of Sermons

by John Albert Broadus

THE PREPARATION AND DELIVERY 1. Importance op Preacuixq and D/ik'ici;i/rT or Pupachinq WEI/l. I 2. NATUItK OP ElOQOHNCE. §3. KkQUISITES TO YaV-FKCTIVE PrEACMINO. 4. OaiGIN 0* Till! ItUJ.ES ok KllKTORIC. 5. Dan«kks or RiiFTOuiCAL Sttjdiks. gC. Rkj.atiox op IIom- 1I.KTICB TO RjiKTOKIC. 7. TjITKRATOBE OT UoM) LKTIC9. PREACHING is characteristic of Christianity. No false religion has ever provided for the regular and frequent assembling of the masses of men, to hear religious instruction and exhortation.* Judaism had. something like it in the prophets, and afterwards in the readers and speakers of the synagogue; but Judaism was a true religion, designed to be developed into Christianity. The great appointed means of spreading the good tidings of salvation through Christ is preaching - words spoken, whether to the individual, or to the nssemhly. And this, nothing can supersede. Printing has become ;i mighty agency for good find for evil; and Christians sho

Table of Contents

CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 Importance of l'r&aching Difficulty of preaching well; # 1 Nature of Eloquence 20; 13 Kccjuisitcs to effective preaching, vtz> P>et>'> n;uural giftB, knowledge, skill 22; 17 $4 Origin of the Rnlcs of; j " Rhetoric 25; l'J • | 5 Dangers of 1 h c t o t i o ;»I; studies 2(i; 5d Hulixtiou of llouiiletics to; Rhetoric 30; 7 Literature of Ilumiletica 31; PART I; mATE111ALS OF 1>REACHING CHAPTER I; THIS TEXT - SELECTION" £1 Mcimiug of the term Text :*8 | $ 3 Kulcs (eight) for the selcc-; g 2 Advantage* of haviug ,; Text M ??; lion of Texts 41; CHAPTER II; THE TfcXT - lNTE/tritETATlOX; gl« Obligation to interpret carefully and s-triclly 51; g 2 Chief sources of error in the iulcrpretaliOM of; texts 53; Misuuderstnndiug the text itself 53; Disregarding Ihe couoec-; tion of fhe text; Improper gpirituulifcing $«'i Examples (» i n C t c en) of texts often misapplied £ 4 Rules (six) for interpreting;

514 pages, Paperback

Published August 24, 2018

About the author

John Albert Broadus was an American Baptist pastor, and a professor of New Testament interpretation at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky.

For a brief time during the Civil War, Pastor Broadus served as a chaplain to Robert E. Lee's army in Northern Virginia.

Reviews

[Ben Robin · Rating 5 out of 5]

I’m not familiar with a modern book on preaching that is as thorough and comprehensive as this one. It’s astonishingly readable as well.